✍️ [blog] Expanding the Editorial Team: Alec Robitaille and Lucy D''Agostino McGowan Join as Editors
We're excited and grateful to welcome Alec and Lucy as new editors!
Read more in the blog post: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/16/editors2026/
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[blog] reviser: Analyzing Real-Time Data Revisions in R 📈
Marc Burri and Philipp Wegmüller introduce reviser, an R package for analyzing real-time data vintages and revisions in macroeconomic datasets.
Learn about reviser’s workflow: reshape vintages, extract revisions, summarize revision […]
✍️ [blog] Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-Universe on Development of Common Infrastructure by rOpenSci and Bioconductor Teams
The R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure while accommodating the […]
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: Getting to know the CSID Network with cohost Irene Ramos
Tuesday April 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-04
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[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
Not so long ago @yabellini shared how the Champions program supports the growth of mentors. Do you have some mentors you'd like to support?
⏳ Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools
📆 April 8, 2025
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/04/08/mentoring-tools/ […]
[help wanted] An rOpenSci package is looking for some help! 🙏
📦 GLMMcosinor (maintained by Rex Parsons)
Check out this 'help wanted' issue:
'[improvement] extract and visualise rhythms at the random-effect level' at https://github.com/ropensci/GLMMcosinor/issues/37 (by Rex Parsons)
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[help wanted] rOpenSci packages are looking for maintainer help 🙏
The following packages are looking for a new maintainer (or maintainer team).
Check out their issues to see about getting involved
landscapetools - https://github.com/ropensci/landscapetools/issues/48
NLMR - […]
[blog] A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Did you know how Tree-sitter's support for R help you get
✨ reformatting through Air and linting through Jarl;
✨ auto-completion or help on hover in the Positron IDE;
✨ better search for R on GitHub;
✨ and more!
By @maelle […]
Excited that @ropensci.org 's April co-working and office hours will be held jointly with the Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease network! Join us and CSID network hosts Irene Ramos and Adamu Saleh Saidu on Apr 7 at 16:00 UTC to get to know a peer community!: ropensci.org/events/cowor...
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Getting to know the CSID Network
Tuesday April 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
Join Irene Ramos and @steffilazerte
- General coworking
- Visit the [CSID Network](https://csidnet.org/
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat […]
March news! 🗞️ #RStats
🌐 rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved
🙌 Champions Program Update
🚀 R-Universe update
🔎 Software review and usage of AI tools
🤖 Software review bot updates
📆 Coworking
🐦 New package {suwo}
👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers
🗒️ Blog posts!
🧰 […]
[blog] Breaking Release of the patentsview Package
Russ Allen and Chris Baker introduce major updates to patentsview following breaking changes to the PatentsView API 🔧
Learn what's changed and how to update your code to work with the new API endpoints and structure […]
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the many women who shape rOpenSci every day. 💙
From software development and peer review to mentorship, community leadership, and training, women are building and strengthening open science across our global community.
They play key roles across […]
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
Time flies when you're having fun! 10 years ago @jeroenooms introduced pdftools to the rOpenSci ecosystem as a staff-maintained package!
⏳ Introducing pdftools - A fast and portable PDF extractor
📆 March 1, 2016
🔗 […]
📝 [blog] How do we keep software peer review human-centered in the age of generative AI?
That’s the question behind our latest post at rOpenSci, where we describe:
• new expectations around AI use
• what this means for authors, reviewers, and editors
• why transparency matters more than ever […]
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: rOpenSci Editors with cohost @mpadge
Tuesday March 3rd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC)
https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-03
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[blog] Guia de desenvolvimento da rOpenSci 1.0.0: trilíngue e aprimorado 🥳
A orientação da revisão por pares de Software rOpenSci está reunida em um livro on-line que continua melhorando! Esta postagem do blog resume o que há de novo em nosso Dev Guide 1.0.0 […]
[blog] rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingüe y mejorada 🥳
Las orientaciones de rOpenSci para realizar la revisión de software por pares se recopilan en un libro en línea ¡que sigue mejorando! Este artículo resume las novedades de nuestra Guía de Desarrollo 1.0.0 […]
[blog] rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved 🥳
rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post summarises what’s new in our Dev Guide 1.0.0,
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/03/02/devguide-1.0.0/
February news! 🗞️ #RStats
💙 Strong Engagement in the Champions Program Call
🤔 Policy Updates for use of Generative AI Tools
🚀 Community Dashboard for your own R-Universe
📆 Coworking
💓 New packages {Athlytics}, {orgmetrics}
👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers
🗒️ Blog posts!
🧰 […]
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: rOpenSci Editors
Tuesday March 3rd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC)
Join @mpadge and @steffilazerte
- General coworking
- Learn more about rOpenSci Software Peer Review)
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat with Mark and other […]
Aplicaciones al programa de Campeon(a|e)s: Recibimos 81 solicitudes de campeones y 14 de mentores procedentes de 23 países, y el 74 % de los solicitantes propuso desarrollar un nuevo paquete.
📣 ¡El plazo de inscripción para el Programa Champions ya ha finalizado!
¡La respuesta ha sido fantástica!
Ahora estamos revisando todas las solicitudes y comenzando el proceso de selección.
📬 Ya se han enviado correos electrónicos de confirmación a todas las […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Champions Program applications 2026-2027: We received 81 Champion and 14 Mentor applications from 23 countries, with 74% of applicants proposing to develop a new package.
📣 The Champions Program call is now closed!
The response was fantastic!
We’re now reviewing all applications and kicking off the selection process.
📬 Confirmation emails have already been sent to all applicants.
Huge thanks to everyone who applied! 💙
#RStats
Preguntas frecuentes mentores/as: recibiras un estipendio por tu participación, vas a ser mentor/a de una sola persona y recibiras capacitación en como ser mentor/a. Ademas opcionalmente podes participar en todos los workshops de entranmiento de campeones y campeonas. Podes aplicar para ser mentor si ya lo fuiste en una cohorte anterior.
Preguntas y repsuestas frecuentas para campeoneas/as: No se pueden presentar como equipo, pero pueden seleccionar una persona representante que se presente al programa. Solo pueden presentar un paquete como idea y esa idea debe ser solida, un concepto bien consolidado que les permita empezar a trabajar inmediatamente. Si ya participaste antes, no podes volver a aplicar como campeon o campeona pero si podrias aplicar como mentor/a.
🚨 ¡Atención, aspirantes a Campeon(a|e)s o Mentor(a|e)s de rOpenSci!
Debido a problemas técnicos con nuestro sistema de envío de solicitudes, la fecha límite se ha extendido hasta el lunes 23 de febrero.
🚨 Attention rOpenSci Champions and Mentors applicants!
Due […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
La página que contiene el formulario para aplicar al programa de campeonas/es está experimentando problemas.
Extendemos el llamado hasta el lunes 23.
Si el problema persiste buscaremos una alternativa.
Gracias a todas las personas que nos avisaron y que quieren aplicar! 💜🙏
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@rstats@a […]
[blog] Paleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant 🎉 🦴
Palaeoverse is a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology (The Palaeoverse toolkit). 🐊🦕🌿🪸🦑
Will Gearty and The Palaeoverse Team are excited to announce funding from the Software […]
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
We get to celebrate another 5-year anniversary!
Five years ago the targets package cleared rOpenSci Peer Review and was introduced by @landau 🎉
A successor to Will's equally popular drake package, targets quickly became a mainstream tool for reproducible pipelines […]
Hoy: Clínica de Aplicación para el Programa Campeon(e|a)s 📝 💫
https://ropensci.org/events/clinica-champions-2026/
Podés quedarte las dos horas o solo el tiempo que necesites:
- Prepara tu solicitud para el Programa de Campeones
- Conoce a la coanfitriona Yanina Bellini Saibene para charlar […]
🎉 ¡Se abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci!
César comparte qué significó ser parte del Programa de Campeones y cómo esta experiencia impulsó su desarrollo profesional y su proyecto.
https://vimeo.com/1160233787
📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero
Toda la […]
🎉 We’re excited to welcome Natalia da Silva and @andrew as new editors for rOpenSci’s Statistical Software Peer Review program!
Their experience in statistics, R, reproducible research, and open science will help strengthen our collaborative, transparent, and community-driven review process […]